The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.
The F.sh,opable Boardlng-so school Girl.

The Fashionable Boarding School Girl.
The most absorbing of social topics, after that
OF servants, 10 education, and during the dog
days the commentary upon the subject may be
heard. We meet the young Solons with their
sanes grasped lightly by the middle, and the
boarding school misses shine at all the picnics
and hot weather dances. They look much as
they did year ago. You co not see wisdom
sitting bodily upon their brows yet they are no
more the same than il seven whole years had
shufied off their entire outer integument. The
fashionable boarding school for young ladies,
where an exquisite veneer finish is applied with
neatness and dispatch, exhibits the most strik-
ing examples of their training. Dorothy-she
has an Old-fashioned name, but nothing else on
that order-was bright unconscious child last
year. full OF life and quaint originality.
Her mind was just waking. She stud
ed and played and danced with
childish abandon. What have We nowl
Che tells you she was almost dead when school
1losed-that the girls were all limp rags.
''simply worked to death" She doesn't ever
want to look at book again. She is resting
her head this summer by keeping the light. fan
tsstic toe in motion. She has been visiting six
different girls-sueh dears-alrea dy and does
not mean to spend any time at home unless the
invitations give out before school opens. 1T is
awfully jolly TO visit you know" she never
had such a perfectly lovely time in all her life
before. 1t has been one blissful summer At
G there were four of them visiting ono or
their schoolmates all at once, and such run!
The boys began call right after breakfast
and there were more or less boys ana
yomething going on every night-she just loved
dancing, but the weather was so beastly warm
they had not had the slightest energy. Dorothy
sing beautifully, and her father pays 50
lesson for her musical instruction regularly
But one has heard her sing this summer.
No. indeed. she is mot in voice" She has had
cold ever since school closed-she adores picnics
she does not do housework-she is not strong
but she adores lawn-tennis She looks well in
tennis suit Last year little Dorothy thought
Der mother was wise and beautiful. This year
Bhe wonders audibly why mamma does not dress
like the dashing Mrs. H., who has ''such sweet
toilets" And her father often appears quite
gauche in her eyes. She is prettycnld The brain
Is not yet quite spoiled. and her eyes shine still
when she is happy Last year she did not
trouble herself much about her appearance. hav-
ing been well taught that ''pretty is pretty
does" Now she longs to be beautiful One
thing il requisite to the man she will marry. she
says-he must be handsome She could gradu-
ate this year, if she worked hard, but she doesn't
think IL worth while. as she Is going abroad to
finish. anyway. You tell her she will be very
learned no doubt, when she Is thus finished.
o no indeed, she wouldn't be learned for any
thing. What has she read this yearl Well,
really. nothing at all There is never any time
busy resting this. summer How is
her dear mother2 20 mamma is
perfectly miserable; she suffers constantly
from those horrid headaches. You speak of the
sunstrokes mentioned in the morning paper.
She has not seen the morning paper-there IS so
little in it she often does not look at it for
weeks. But when she writes TO you-then you
are edited. Her chirography lacks that legi-
bility noticed in the marking of dry goods
boxes In course of shipping, but there is the
size and ponderousness to the letters.
There is a windy look to the page, also, the let
tors, all leaning dangerously. You think you
have a whole budget when you open the bulky
missive, but bitter disappointment awaits.
you There is only one idea in it all. with its
three words to line and three lines to
page, and that idea is diluted and
Dorothy has favored you with a letter in the
middle of her multitudnous engagements, and
in spite of the obligation to hurry up your letter
Is obliged to write. Dorothy is devoted to
waterloo and thinks Augustus ''such sweet
fellow" The girls whom she visits are all rich.
None others go to this school. They make the
most desirable friends you know. She has the
most violent attachments for her young friends,
and will be two weeks late in entering school
this fall in order to be bridesmaid to one of the
sweet flowers that could not wait to graduate
before being married. Dorothy used to walk
like goddess with spring heels and
less OF waist and tilted heels of her ''set"
She is restless and i'll at ease in company of
girls. She does not shine and is apt to loll and
be stupid She loves to drive late in the even
ing with Augustus and patronze her elders with
her social experience and worldly wisdom.
are chatting in groups. she makes stir. She
conversation and the paltry affairs
in which older people still find interest in life
sink into insignifcance in comparison with her
absorbing antiques, her billet-doux and her
beaux. She would not learn to cook for anything
In this world. 1t is such bore, you know.
Every night when she Is far away IN the fash
ionable boarding -school getting the cerebral
cavities filed with more than emptiness
her mother prays Providence to watch
over her darling girl-her baby-to put the fear
of the Lord that is the beginning of wisdom into
her heart and life. and give her grace for her
daily temptations. To brink her back, O to
bring her back safe to her mother heart, a Joy
and comfort to their waning lives. Her father
lies awake and thinks how rosy and dimplsd she
used to lie every night in her little bed, and
longs for the old walks and tete-a .tetes and
romps they used TO have toRether-longs to look
over his newspaper morning and evening and
see her there in his home, and thinks there is
no man alive shall have his daughter. They
might " ell put her in the fire and pray the
good Lord to pull her out unhurt. They might
escape as to send her TO the fashionable frivolous
boarding school world and expect her come
back to them unspotted from the world and in
nocent. This is the coming health angel. This
Is the latest product of education.
Personal Mention.
Mr.. NJ. G. McIan has returned from New York.
Miss Grace Irwin is visiting friends in Greencastle
Will Chandler and Charles New at Turkey Lake.
c. B. Paul and wife have returned from Murdoch
III.
Will Z. English and Walter Rivers at ST. Peters